GuySrinivasan comments on Guidelines for Upvoting and Downvoting? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 06 May 2015 03:21:14PM 2 points [-]

Different folks have different reasons, and it's not just a noisy-but-additive result, since some folks use an algorithm like "upvote an article that 'feels like' an article that should end up at +5 if it's currently below +5, otherwise don't, or even downvote" for whatever value of 5 the article makes them feel. A control system in the midst.